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Karen Wilkes '00 champions diversity

By Sarah Gerry | July 20, 1998

While most students spent Saturday afternoon floating down the Connecticut River in a drunken stupor, Karen Wilkes '00 caught up on some much needed sleep. Wilkes had been up all night Friday talking with friends, and, although she said she regrets missing Tubestock, she thought the conversations were productive. "[We] really opened up to each other," she said.

Opinion

Class and Race

By Scott Brown | July 20, 1998

Two weeks ago, the Clinton Administration unveiled a plan to re-establish limited affirmative action preferences for minority owned businesses.

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College prepares for millenium bug

By Jennifer Hickey | July 16, 1998

With corporations and universities world-wide currently fearing massive computer system failures at the turn of the century, Dartmouth computer administrators say the College is well-prepared. "Dartmouth has avoided this problem by being proactive ever since 1991," Director of Administrative Computing Bill Barry said.

Arts

'Late Night's' Carl 'Oldy' Olsen dies at 76

By Erik Tanouye | July 16, 1998

The year was 1994. A baseball strike had crippled the nation's sports fans. A fledgling ex-"Simpsons" writer was struggling to survive in David Letterman's old spot on NBC's "Late Night." And the small legion of Conan fans was introduced to the comic talents of William Preston, now known to millions of television viewers as Carl "Oldy" Olsen. Preston, who brought a Santa Claus beard and maniacal laugh to the role of Oldy Olsen, died Friday at the age of 76. Conan O'Brien's first years at "Late Night" were shaky, to say the least.

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Big names for first 99 Rockfest

By Matt Frucci And Joe Manera | July 16, 1998

The Goo Goo Dolls, Marcy Playground, Fuel and more will be coming to the Upper Valley for 99 Rockfest, an outdoor concert, on August 14. The concert is being produced entirely by 99 Rock, the College's FM radio station, and will be held at the North Haverhill Fairgrounds in North Haverhill, VT.

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Lent '96 leads Green Card merger

By Alex Shartsis | July 16, 1998

Taran Lent '96, vice president of the Hanover Green Card, is leading the Green Card's overhaul of the DASH office. Lent said his interest in the Green Card -- a debit card available to students for use at local businesses -- began his sophomore spring. "I was literally one of the very first card members," Lent said. He filled out his application, corrected the spelling mistakes he found on it and went into the fledgling Green Card office to turn in the corrected form and offer his help. Mitch Jacobs '94, founder and president, called on him many times thereafter. Lent returned to Hanover the summer of his junior year, both for football training and as an intern in the Green Card office. He went on to be one of the football team's co-captains his senior year, playing outside linebacker.

Opinion

Running Out Of Time?

By Margie DeWard | July 16, 1998

Wow, It's sophomore summer, and it is kind of scary to say that. For so long, sophomore summer was this term of fun in the distant future that everyone looked forward to and made grand plans for.

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Students to canoe, swim, party in river

By Eun Lee Koh | July 16, 1998

By mid-afternoon on Saturday, the Connecticut River will have turned into a sea of rubber tubes, plywood rafts and floating bodies. The 12th annual Tubestock will give students the chance to listen to live music and cool off in the water, imbibing in legal and illegal drinks -- with temperatures expected to hit record highs this weekend. Although Tubestock has become a Summer term tradition at Dartmouth, the College maintains a complete separation from the event. The tradition evolved from a daylong party on the river thrown by Rich "Boomer" Akerboom '80 for his friends during the summer of 1987. At the original event, Akerboom, a former brother of the Chi Heorot fraternity, played with his band on the deck of his house, the "River Ranch," while his friends watched from the river. Around 200 students attended the first Tubestock and soon the event caught on.

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